📜 January 27: On This Day in History |  | Divine driver |  Image: The DONUT/OpenAI | Each of the following events happened on January 27. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang sports car developed by the American auto racer and car designer Carroll Shelby, is launched. Almost 22,000 Mustangs are snapped up by buyers on release day.
- B) Poet and politician Dante Alighieri (often known as just "Dante") is exiled from Florence. He goes on to write his masterpiece epic the Divine Comedy during the banishment.
- C) The Soviet Red Army enters and liberates Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps there. The rescue finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors from the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany.
- D) The Paris Peace Accords are signed by the US, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and North Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.
Hint: Peace accords usually signal the end of war |
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📜 Answers | | B, C, A, D - B) 1302 – Dante is exiled from Florence after his political activities—including the banishing of several rivals—led to a banishment of his own.
- C) 1945 – Soviet troops enter and liberate Auschwitz.
- A) 1965 – The Shelby Mustang is launched. It remained in production through the end of the 1960s, with the brand later being resurrected in 2005.
- D) 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords are signed to end the Vietnam War.
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